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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
Photographer
Photojournalist
New York City
New York
Wanted
Never
Life
Bore
Bores
Photographer
Certainly
Short
Fun

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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing it.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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